GenBank Full Release and Daily Updates

Files of the full release and daily updates of the GenBank database are available for anonymous FTP from 'ftp.ncbi.nih.gov'. Check the README file for a description of the files. The complete release notes for the current version of GenBank contain additional detailed information.

The full release in flat-file format is available as compressed files in the directory genbank. It is created every two months.

Individual files for each day's new or updated sequence entries processed since close of data for the latest release are located in the sub-directory daily-nc.

ASN.1 formatted data is in the directory ncbi-asn1.

Lists of all nucleotide and protein accession numbers, generated each Sunday evening, are available in the Live lists directory.

GenBank Mirror Sites

A mirror site for downloading GenBank files is available at the University of Indiana, ftp://bio-mirror.net/biomirror/genbank.

Revised: November 1, 2005.